"You hand pick the opposition when you come to these places, just like the Germans and the Dutch do," explained McLeish.
"We selected an easier game to start with to try and score a few goals and to keep our disciplines while doing that, and that's what we did.
"You don't come to look for perfection in pre-season.
"We are trying to hone the players in terms of their fitness and also try to get them back into the good habits again that we would encourage them to have during the season.
"It does no harm to play games and score goals and boost the confidence.
"From that point of view we could have had a few more.
"We were very profligate in the first half and missed a few chances but maybe that wee bit of tiredness crept in because the players have trained very hard since we've been out here."